It's time to prepare for AI personhood Jacy Reese Anthis

The Guardian 

'Digital minds will be participants in the social contract that forms the bedrock of human society.' 'Digital minds will be participants in the social contract that forms the bedrock of human society.' It's time to prepare for AI personhood Technological advances will bring social upheaval. How will we treat digital minds, and how will they treat us? L ast month, when OpenAI released its long-awaited chatbot GPT-5, it briefly removed access to a previous chatbot, GPT-4o. Despite the upgrade, users flocked to social media to express confusion, outrage and depression.